Egg donors and procedures

The Fertility Institutes maintain a very active oocyte (egg) donor program. We have over thirty egg donors, including most races, available for patient consideration. Our donors are extensively screened and are all college or graduate students. Unlike many other programs, we do not utilize egg donors over the age of 27 years, thus assuring our recipients very high pregnancy rates at very affordable prices. We have no age restrictions for healthy potential recipients interested in utilizing our donors. All donations in our program are anonymous. We do not offer "meet the donor" or "donor meets the parents" options, though we do provide extensive background and genetic history information on the donors to potential recipients.

Partial List of Egg Donor Profiles

The table below is being updated constantly, but always lags behind the actual list of donors available through an office contact. +/- 18 donors currently available. All egg donors are college students, age 18-27 yrs. Minimum B college grade point average. Call for additional information or check back as donor list expands and contracts. No donor is deemed suitable until repeat screenings are carried out following a "match". "Frozen" indicates this donor also has frozen oocytes she has produced available through our egg bank. The use of frozen oocytes is considered experimental. The oocyte donor pool changes rapidly and without notice. While listed donors have been screened, no guarantee of the availability of any of the listed donors is implied.

 
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ID	Race	Parent Ethnicity	Skin Tone	Height	Weight	Eyes	Hair Color	Hair Texture	Photo	About
	C	Irish/English	Fair	5'7"	114	Grn	Blnd	avy	Y	History, Education, Travel
	C	Irish/ French	Fair	5'6"	118	Hzl	Blk	Str	N	Hiking, Tennis, Reading
	C	English/ Canadian	Fair	5'6"	122	Blu	Blnd	Str	N	Computer Science, Math
	B	Nigeria/ So.Afr.	Blk	5'8"	117	Brn	Blk	Str	N	Modeling, Tennis
	C	German/ Polish	Fair	5'8"	128	Brn	Brn	Wavy	Y	Media major (TV production)
	H	Panama/ Mexico	Olive	5'6"	128	Brn	Blk	Str	N	Education major
	B	Afro/ Jamaican	Blk	5'8"	128	Brn	Blk	Curly	N	Cooking, Pottery making
	J	Japan/ Japan	Fair	5'3"	102	Brn	Blk	Str	Y	Fashion Design
	C	English/ Scottish	Med	5'8"	125	Blu	Blnd	Wavy	N	Finance, Travel
	C	Italian/ Italian	Fair	5'7"	124	Grn	Blk	Str	N	Literature, History, Tennis
	H	Costa Rica/ Costa	Fair	5'5"	120	Brn	Blk	Wavy	N	Foreign Diplomacy, Conulate
	C	Scottish/ Irish	Fair	5'8"	132	Blu	Blnd	Wavy	N	Languages, Bicycling
	C	Irish/ German	Med	5'4"	124	Hzl	Brn	Str	N	Culinary Arts, Chef, Painting
	C	Italian/ French	Fair	5'8"	124	Grn	Brn	Sl. Wave	N	Accounting, Tennis
	H	Mexico/ Mexico	Olive	5'4"	126	Brn	Blk	Str	N	Dance, Sing, Gymnastics
	C	English/ English	Fair	5'9"	138	Grn	Blnd	Wavy	N	Art, Computer Sciences
	C	German/ Swedish	Fair	5'7"	126	Brn	Lt. Brn	Str	N	Law student, Bicycle
	B	Afro/ Afro	Black	5'9"	144	Brn	Blk	Curly	N	Pre-Med, Track

 

Oocytes (Eggs) Retrieval

Oocytes (eggs) are collected from the ovaries through a vaginal approach that avoids incisions.

 

Once harvested, the oocytes are prepared and are then inseminated with filtered, healthy sperm.

 

 Oocyte Cryopreservation and the Development of Frozen Human "Egg Banks"

Recent advances in the In Vitro Fertilization process have now allowed us to successfully freeze, store and later thaw and fertilize cryopreserved human eggs. This new advance in the field of assisted reproductive technologies provides yet another valuable tool to aid in the management of couples struggling to overcome problems with infertility. While we have enjoyed excellent pregnancy rates for some time utilizing frozen and later thawed human embryos, our new ability to store unfertilized human eggs allows many new techniques and resources to be developed.

Employing techniques developed from years of worldwide cryobiology research, our team and others are now reporting the successful cryopreservation and subsequent fertilization of human oocytes. Employing intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) to aid the fertilization of donor oocytes, a 12% oocyte survival rate, a 60% fertilization rate and an 8% embryo development rate is obtainable.

As a result, we hope to soon be able to offer on a limited basis, the availability of frozen donor eggs from healthy, screened and tested donors to infertility patients that may benefit from this service. The group of patients likely to utilize such donated oocytes include those women with premature ovarian failure, women over age 40 who have been unsuccessful in their attempts to become pregnant with their own gametes, patients with genetically transmissible conditions, post oophrectomy patients, women with Turner's syndrome and those whose oocytes have been depleted following chemo or radiation therapy.

In addition, our increasing ability to cryopreserve oocytes may soon offer options to women facing premature loss of their ovaries. Rapid harvesting and cryopreservation of eggs will be, with further development, carried out in younger women dealing with cervical, endometrial and breast cancer, as well as those facing systemic chemotherapy or other therapy thought to be a threat to reproductive potential.

The future indeed looks bright for the cryopreservation of reproductive potential in women at the Fertility Institutes.

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